Huc-Hepher French London

A blended ethnography of a migrant city
1. Auflage 2021
ISBN: 978-1-5261-4334-1
Verlag: De Gruyter
Format: PDF
Kopierschutz: PC/MAC/eReader/Tablet

E-Book, Englisch, 296 Seiten

Reihe: New Ethnographies

This book offers a refreshing interdisciplinary perspective on an under-researched migrant minority: the French in London. Through a blended ethnographic lens, it provides insights into the complex lived experience of cross-Channel mobility and settlement processes in on-land and on-line settings.

Autoren/Hrsg.

Huc-Hepher, Saskia

Fachgebiete

• Sozialwissenschaften Politikwissenschaft Politikwissenschaft Allgemein Politische Studien zu einzelnen Ländern und Gebieten
• Sozialwissenschaften Soziologie | Soziale Arbeit Soziologie Allgemein
• Geowissenschaften Geographie | Raumplanung Humangeographie

Inhaltsverzeichnis

Introduction
1 Looking back: the underlying push of symbolic violence in France
2 Looking in: windows onto intimate London habitats and homemaking across cultures
3 The imperceptible force of habituation: moving beyond agency
4 Adopting the habits of the London field: French community rejection and projection
5 Looking beyond: blended understandings of symbolic forces in London-French education on-land and on-line
6 Digital representations of habitus: a multimodal reading of archived London-French blogs
Conclusion
Epilogue: ‘Brexit blues’

References
Index

Über Autor(innen)

Saskia Huc-Hepher is Senior Lecturer in French Studies at the University of Westminster